Example sentences of "[vb past] [adv] [prep] [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The play tottered on like this for a quarter of an hour . |
| 2 | A number of significant changes have occurred in British society since 1979 , and the one centred on in this book has been the emergence of an underclass . |
| 3 | She burbled on like this , feeling dismally she was not helping herself , while Mrs Whitfield sat , eyes lowered , pricking out a pattern with the tip of her ballpoint on the top left-hand corner of Alice 's form . |
| 4 | Now we got on to this the other day does anybody remember that ? |
| 5 | So what they says is that I , I got on at this wall , jumped across onto this other wall , shinned up the outside of this other wall , stood on top of this the first floor wall and jumped up and caught hold of the top of the second floor wall and he reckon in the la about fucking twenty odd seconds , I was up and over and in , they , they , they fucking kill yourself , get down , I ca n't remember none of it . |
| 6 | So men from the IRA mixed with British squaddies , and through necessity got on with each other . |
| 7 | I got on with some work of my own and he went back to his . |
| 8 | She worked mainly with men , and got on with most of them , but she did not enjoy it when Alec Ardis , the son of the firm 's owner , one day came into her office and , without any encouragement from her and despite his married status , made an assault on her and refused to take ‘ no ’ for an answer . |
| 9 | I did anyway , I got on with most teachers but but he did , really did give him a a really big , say a big couple of swipes on his backside . |
| 10 | For a short time we got on without much difficulty , but we were soon obliged to have recourse to our hands and knees , and clamber thus from one crag to another . |
| 11 | Well the first question I want to ask you is how do you feel you got on in those presentations . |
| 12 | And it got on from that you see . |
| 13 | Then the Cid bade his banner move on , and the Bishop Don Hieronymo pricked forward with his company , and laid on with such guise , that the hosts were soon mingled together . |
| 14 | The Young Socialists were in a state of constant conflict with their elders , and they fought bitterly against any intervention in their political initiatives . |
| 15 | The crisis arose eventually over another matter , when Ken exerted successful moral pressure on one of William 's Dutch courtiers to marry the Princess 's maid of honour whom he had seduced . |
| 16 | Emma Cons lived on for another twelve years , continuing to work at her housing projects : but a new chapter had opened in the history of what was to become the Old Vic , as Lilian Baylis began to programme it for early films and then light opera and later Shakespeare . |
| 17 | Er , her father lived on for another six years . |
| 18 | There was always this idea that people lived on in some form after death , looking after you . |
| 19 | But Fleury knew that his life depended on not being shaken off and so he clung on with all his might , his legs gripping the sepoy 's waist as tight as a corset , his hands dragging on the two broken pieces of violin . |
| 20 | Yet in Scotland the majority of the ‘ salariat ’ ( 58 per cent ) clung on to such views . |
| 21 | Many builders of smaller houses in the Cotswolds clung on to this much-loved style which they had so perfected . |
| 22 | On rehearsal , when our cue came through , we heard him say ‘ I am a sea-gull at the Port of Vancouver ’ instead of the ‘ Fitzpatrick Travelogue ’ script agreed on for this part of the show . |
| 23 | This led on to many of our older members recalling their experiences too . |
| 24 | Photojournalism and the birth of photography are briefly touched on , Context and Ambiguity expanded on in some depth , ethics briefly considered and a fair selection of illustrations from the exhibition are included , including Robert Capa 's The Last Man to die , Leipzig , Germany and Chris Steele-Perkins Famine in Karamoja Province , Uganda , images that are almost commonplace today . |
| 25 | The IBOA negotiators argued forcibly on many points giving reasons as to why the Banks should concede a significant salary increase to our members . |
| 26 | Although cylinder manufacturers countered effectively for some decades , first with moulding techniques and later with finer grooves , the overwhelming simplicity of being able to press thousands of copies of disc records and play them on a simple machine eventually told in the disc 's favour . |
| 27 | If one accepts the story of Molla Yegan 's bringing Molla Gurani to the Ottoman court-and there seems no reason not to-then on the basis of what appears to be the fairly firm evidence for this part of Molla Gurani 's career , Molla Yegan 's return from his journey can not be dated earlier than 845/1441–2 ; and on the reasonable assumption that the purpose of Molla Yegan 's journey was to make the pilgrimage , it seems entirely likely that it was in the year 844/1440–1 , the same year that Molla Gurani made his abortive pilgrimage , that Molla Yegan also performed the hajj and that the two met somewhere after that pilgrimage , though clear information about the actual time and place of their meeting is entirely lacking . |
| 28 | When parents ceased to be available , primitive man could well have felt the loss , and the need to transfer the dependence elsewhere and this led eventually to some form of imagined substitute , or ‘ god ’ as the surrogate . |
| 29 | When news was brought to the hotel that the general had , ‘ passed on to that great trout loch in the sky ’ , people were genuinely saddened because the general had been a much-respected member of the community . |
| 30 | Such generative practices structured my early experience , and built a constructed hierarchy of ‘ us ’ and ‘ them ’ which was set up and passed on to all initiates . |